Penrose Alternatives

Apps similar to Penrose include draw.io, which is free and open source. Other options are LibreOffice - Draw, yEd Graph Editor, Microsoft Visio and PlantUML. Diagram Editors like Penrose are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, the web, Linux and self-hosting.

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  1. PlantText icon
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    The PlantText tool is an online tool for quickly creating UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams. Unlike most tools, PlantText can build diagrams without the use of a mouse because it is based on PlantUML markup language.

    75 PlantText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • PlantUML
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  2. Ideament icon
     6 likes

    Lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  3.  3 likes

    A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
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  4. Xfig icon
     7 likes

    Xfig is an interactive drawing tool which runs under X Window System Version 11 Release 4 (X11R4) or later, on most UNIX-compatible platforms, and e.g. under Darwin on the MacIntosh and any X server under Microsoft Windows.

    20 Xfig alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Theory Maker icon
     2 likes

    Theory Maker is a free web app by Steve Powell for making any kind of causal diagram, i.e. a diagram which uses arrows to say what contributes to what. You make the diagrams just by typing the names of the elements (called variables) in a structured way into a (resizeable)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. SocNetV icon
     5 likes

    Social Network Visualizer (SocNetV) is a cross-platform, user-friendly application for the analysis and visualization of Social Networks in the form of mathematical graphs, where vertices depict actors/agents and edges represent their relations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. diagrams icon
     6 likes

    Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. DotEditor icon
     3 likes

    A graphical editor for dot files for use with GraphViz to generate diagrams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9.  3 likes

    blockdiag and its family generate diagram images from simply text file.

    Features:

    Supports many types of diagrams block diagram (w/ blockdiag) sequence diagram (w/ seqdiag) activity diagram (w/ actdiag) logical network diagra.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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